God Bless You, Domi! for bringing some real live fun to the home of the Funsters!!!

I'm so cheered by your visit, that I just may put up breakfast tomorrow!


LOL These are great!

Along with the ones you mentioned, I got a real chuckle out of:

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed. (HahHah! Love it!)

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Number 3 engine missing
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search. (LOL)

That last one, the deliberate misunderstanding, was more fun than a crack in the propeller!

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Good Morning everyone!!!


It's a brand new sunny day!


We're going with a hearty Truck Stop Breakfast today, Steak and Eggs, Homefries, lots of Toast, Bonne Maman (Good Mother) Strawberry Preserves, and lots of Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice.


Enjoy!

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Trying to help, doctor may have killed Beethoven

ASSOCIATED PRESS

August 29, 2007

VIENNA, Austria – Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer's physician did – inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.

Other researchers are not convinced, but there is no controversy about one fact: The master had been a very sick man years before his death in 1827.

Previous research determined that Ludwig van Beethoven had suffered from lead poisoning, first detecting toxic levels of the metal in his hair and then, two years ago, in bone fragments. Those findings strengthened the belief that lead poisoning may have contributed – and ultimately led – to his death at age 57.

But Viennese forensic expert Christian Reiter claims to know more after months of painstaking work applying CSI-like methods to strands of Beethoven's hair.

He says his analysis, published last week in the Beethoven Journal, shows that in the final months of the composer's life, lead concentrations in his body spiked every time he was treated by his doctor, Andreas Wawruch, for fluid inside the abdomen. Those lethal doses permeated Beethoven's ailing liver, ultimately killing him, Reiter said.

“His death was due to the treatments by Dr. Wawruch,” said Reiter, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Vienna's Medical University. “Although you cannot blame Dr. Wawruch – how was he to know that Beethoven already had a serious liver ailment?”

Nobody did back then.

Only through an autopsy after the composer's death in the Austrian capital on March 26, 1827, were doctors able to establish that Beethoven suffered from cirrhosis of the liver as well as edemas of the abdomen. Reiter says that in attempts to ease the composer's suffering, Wawruch repeatedly punctured the abdominal cavity – and then sealed the wound with a lead-laced poultice.

Although lead's toxicity was known even then, the doses contained in a treatment balm “were not poisonous enough to kill someone if he would have been healthy,” Reiter said. “But what Dr. Wawruch clearly did not know that his treatment was attacking an already sick liver, killing that organ.”

Even before the edemas developed, Wawruch noted in his diary that he treated an outbreak of pneumonia months before Beethoven's death with salts containing lead, which aggravated what researchers believe was an existing case of lead poisoning.

But, said Reiter, it was the repeated doses of the lead-containing cream, administered by Wawruch in the last weeks of Beethoven's life, that did in the composer.

Analysis of several hair strands showed “several peaks where the concentration of lead rose pretty massively” on the four occasions between Dec. 5, 1826, and Feb. 27, 1827, when Beethoven himself documented that he had been treated by Wawruch for the edema, said Reiter. “Every time when his abdomen was punctured ... we have an increase of the concentration of lead in the hair.”

Such claims intrigue others who have researched the issue.

“His data strongly suggests that Beethoven was subjected to significant lead exposures over the last 111 days of his life and that this lead may have been in the very medicines applied by his doctor,” said Bill Walsh, who led the team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago that found large amounts of lead in Beethoven's bone fragments. That research two years ago confirmed the cause of years of debilitating disease that likely led to his death – but did not tie his demise to Wawruch.

“I believe that Beethoven's death may have been caused by this application of lead-containing medicines to an already severely lead-poisoned man,” Walsh said.

As for what caused the poisoning even before Wawruch's treatments, some say it was the lead-laced wine Beethoven drank. Others speculate that as a young man he drank water with high concentrations of lead at a spa.

“We still don't know the ultimate cause,” Reiter said. “But he was a very sick man – for years before his death.”

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Good Morning everyone!!!


It's a brand new sunny day!


We're going with a hearty Truck Stop Breakfast today, Steak and Eggs, Homefries, lots of Toast, Bonne Maman (Good Mother) Strawberry Preserves, and lots of Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice.


Enjoy!

Thank you Beets, that was great.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Good Morning everyone!!!


It's a brand new sunny day!


We're going with a hearty Truck Stop Breakfast today, Steak and Eggs, Homefries, lots of Toast, Bonne Maman (Good Mother) Strawberry Preserves, and lots of Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice.


Enjoy!

Sorry i'm late to breakfast...But i had to come when i saw there was still breakfast being served.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Dan wasn't that a great breakfast? ;-))

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Dan wasn't that a great breakfast? ;-))

Awesome stuff!...Any meal that includes steak is great in my book.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Doctors did not kill Beethoven.
Beets is alive, well, and kicking BUTT!!!
Howdy, Beets! :)

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

Hi Guys!

Thanks Sarge! I am feeling alive and well!

And Thanks guys for dropping in and posting here. :)))


Today I just had one of those days where tradesmen kept showing up at the door. The cable guy turned up to fix the weak signal I was getting (my "On Demand" function for watching or repeating movies and HBO series wasn't working because of it). Now this is funny: the guy really looked like Jim Carrey too! LOL

Then I had a local assessor in to measure the house again for an upcoming assessment appeal I have coming up. Here are some of the figures so you can understand when I say the heating bills are massive. The living space is 345.49 square metres or 3,719 square feet, and the garage/storage area, in addition, is another 64.75 square metres or 696.98 square feet. Kind of a big place for only two people, huh?

Then the carpenter turned up to have a look at building a new door for the garage and to check the condition of the outside stairs going up to the third floor in the back. I wasn't expecting him for at least a week.

And lastly, the neighbourhood teenage kid I'd given up on for showing up to mow the lawn, did show up today. I guess he must've been desperate for some dollars before the weekend.

Everyone's gone now, how nice and quiet the house is. :)

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Wasn't this update supposed to go in the "Where's Beets?" thread? :)

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Wasn't this update supposed to go in the "Where's Beets?" thread? :)

DOH! Of course! <smacks head>

With all the excitement of the crowd here, I kinda lost my head and got carried away.

Sorry.

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No problem! :)

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

Don't forget to say Hi to the tax man for me... (tongue in cheek)

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Account frozen...

Don't forget to say Hi to the tax man for me... (tongue in cheek)

Hey Dawg! You're back in form! LOL

Who're we gonna terrorize today? (tongue in cheek)

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Late Breakfast today, for anyone that didn't get any. Besides, eggs are good any time of the day. :)

Eggs over Easy, and Potato Pancakes, your choice of Jam or Sourcream. And Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice, of course.


Enjoy!

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Those potato pancakes really look good!

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Thanks Dan! :))


@Chris: It's a novelty spoon from the '60s. It only looks like a biro cause of the handle. ;)

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Thanks Dan! :))


@Chris: It's a novelty spoon from the '60s. It only looks like a biro cause of the handle. ;)

Well, I noticed the handle on the fork, but I was too polite to suggest you were stirring it with your knife!

And by such sweet blessings am I made ever joyful! :)

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Thanks Dan! :))


@Chris: It's a novelty spoon from the '60s. It only looks like a biro cause of the handle. ;)

Well, I noticed the handle on the fork, but I was too polite to suggest you were stirring it with your knife!

And by such sweet blessings am I made ever joyful! :)

I have stirred instant coffee with a pen...Does that count?

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

I have stirred instant coffee with a pen...Does that count?

What color was the ink?

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